Gainesville bookkeeper & QuickBooks accountant.

TechBrot provides Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor bookkeeping for Gainesville businesses — monthly bookkeeping, cleanup, and QuickBooks management by a named bookkeeper on the same file every month. Florida has no state personal income tax (C-corporations pay a 5.5% corporate income tax; pass-throughs are generally exempt) and no franchise/margin tax — so what shapes the books is Gainesville’s economy and the Florida tax stack. Gainesville is a university and research town built around the University of Florida: a biotech, life-sciences, and startup cluster (R&D cost tracking, equity and convertible-note rounds, grant-funded research recordkeeping), UF Health and medical research, university-adjacent small business — student housing and rentals, restaurants, and retail on a student cycle — and professional services. The distinctive accounting is R&D and project cost tracking, equity-round records, healthcare and research reconciliation, and seasonal student-cycle revenue. The Florida stack: the 6% sales tax plus the Alachua County surtax, the tangible personal property (DR-405) return on business and lab equipment, the 5.5% corporate income tax on C-corps, and reemployment tax. We build awareness of all of it into your books, keep them CPA-ready, and coordinate with your CPA, who files. Fixed-fee against a written scope ($400–$2,500+/mo monthly; cleanup $1,500–$15,000+). Delivered remotely on QuickBooks Online or hosted Desktop. Independent firm — not affiliated with Intuit Inc.; does not file Florida taxes.

Gainesville is a university and research economy built around the University of Florida — research-driven, equity-funded, and student-cycle in places — and that, on top of Florida’s tax stack, is what shapes its books. Florida has no state personal income tax, though C-corporations pay a 5.5% corporate income tax.

The defining work spans a biotech, life-sciences, and startup cluster (R&D and project cost tracking, equity and convertible-note round records, grant-funded research recordkeeping), UF Health and medical research (practice and research-lab bookkeeping and payer reconciliation), university-adjacent small business — student housing and rentals, restaurants, and retail that swing with the academic calendar — and professional services.

The Florida tax stack still has to be right: 6% sales tax plus the Alachua County surtax, the annual tangible personal property (DR-405) return on business equipment (with a $25,000 exemption) — which matters for lab- and R&D-equipment-heavy operations — the 5.5% corporate income tax on C-corps, and reemployment tax. We put a named bookkeeper on your file who handles R&D cost tracking, equity-round records, payer reconciliation, and the Florida positions cleanly — with the filings left to your CPA.

The result: books that reflect how a Gainesville business actually runs — R&D and project costs tracked, equity rounds recorded, research payers reconciled, student-cycle revenue clean, fixed assets ready for the TPP return, sales tax handled — reconciled monthly and handed to your CPA CPA-ready.

For a UF-linked startup or a research-driven practice, the value isn’t categorizing a transaction — it’s knowing your R&D costs are tracked, your equity rounds are recorded cleanly for investors, your research payers reconcile, your lab equipment is ready for the TPP return, and your sales tax is handled. That judgment is what a named Gainesville bookkeeper brings, and what fractional-CFO advisory extends once the books are clean.